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...previously unreported exploits by Brezhnev. During the Kiev campaign in 1943, New Times reported, he took the place of a machine gunner who had been killed and rallied the defenders to beat off a German attack. On another occasion, he led an assault on a German barracks near Berdichev-against the wishes of a superior officer who had ordered him to leave the area. "My place is wherever the situation requires it," Brezhnev is reported to have said...
...General Vatutin's men fell Berdichev, a manufacturing center and traffic junction, once the headquarters of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command. A bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...
...their Dnieper salient, some 500,000 Germans were now in peril. Through Berdichev the Red Army hurried to choke off the salient's corridor to Poland and Rumania. By week's end General Vatutin's men were less than 65 miles from the pre-1939 Rumanian frontier. At Kirovograd and other points on the salient's rim the Red Army hacked off and trapped hunks of the enemy. The Wehrmacht had spent precious, dwindling reserves in the November-December counterdrive west of Kiev. Now the hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold...
...days Vatutin's men had advanced 60-odd miles, captured 2,000 villages and towns. Korosten and Zhitomir, lately taken and lost, had been retaken. Berdichev, the bustling Jewish town once used by Manstein for his headquarters, was in danger. This week Vatutin pushed back the enemy, forced his way across Russia's Polish threshold...
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